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Girls like me will change Iran. This is a revolution

Sunday 01-01-2023 06:25 PM

On the first morning at school after the protests started, I was sitting at the back of the class when a group of girls came up to me. They told me they were planning something: at breaktime, they ...

Putin toasts the war with champagne as his missiles rock Kyiv

Sunday 01-01-2023 06:01 PM

President Putin has accused the West of using Ukraine as a tool to destroy Russia in an inflammatory new year address defending the ten-month war. “They are cynically using Ukraine and its people to ...

Britain must be clearer who its friends and enemies are

Sunday 01-01-2023 05:56 PM

As 2023 arrives, it is encouraging to hear the Government putting British national interest and security back at the heart of its foreign policy objectives, adopting a more realistic and pragmatic ...

The Taliban Are Abusing Western Aid

Sunday 01-01-2023 05:19 PM

The Taliban’s shocking treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan has been capturing global headlines since the Islamists regained power and began winding the clock back to the last time they ...

NKorea’s Kim orders ‘exponential’ expansion of nuke arsenal

Sunday 01-01-2023 05:02 PM

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the “exponential” expansion of his country’s nuclear arsenal and the development of a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported ...

Pakistan: 1 soldier, 4 militants killed in army operation

Sunday 01-01-2023 04:37 PM

An army operation in Pakistan’s northwest targeting militants triggered a firefight that left a soldier and four fighters dead, the army’s media wing said Sunday. The development comes weeks after ...

Pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95

Saturday 31-12-2022 02:27 PM

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, almost ten years after resigning from the papacy because of his declining health. A pope for eight years and a former pope for ten, he will be ...

Isis has army in waiting, warns US

Saturday 31-12-2022 02:09 PM

Islamic State has an “army in waiting” in prisons and displacement camps across Iraq and Syria, the American military has warned in its annual report on the challenge the group still presents across ...

Iran’s supreme court accepts protester’s appeal against death sentence

Saturday 31-12-2022 01:57 PM

Iran’s supreme court has accepted a protester’s appeal against his death sentence for allegedly damaging public property during anti-government demonstrations, and sent his case back for review, the ...

Korea fires 3 missiles amid tensions over drone flights

Saturday 31-12-2022 01:43 PM

North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its latest weapons display on Saturday, a day after rival South Korea conducted a rocket launch related to its ...

Libya says boat with 700 Europe-bound migrants intercepted

Saturday 31-12-2022 01:19 PM

A vessel carrying at least 700 migrants was intercepted off the eastern coast of Libya, the coast guard said. It was one of the largest interceptions in recent months of migrants seeking a better ...

Iran holds military drill near strategic Strait of Hormuz

Saturday 31-12-2022 12:59 PM

Iran’s military on Friday kicked off its annual drill in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman and near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state TV reported, even as the authorities continue their ...

Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine cities with 120 missiles and drones

Thursday 29-12-2022 07:09 PM

Russia launched more than 120 missiles and drones against targets in Ukraine this morning as Moscow rejected a “peace formula” proposed by President Zelensky as a basis for negotiations. Explosions ...

Moscow on the Med: A Faraway War Transforms a Turkish Resort Town

Thursday 29-12-2022 06:55 PM

The ice cream man grappled with how much the war in Ukraine had changed his neighborhood. So many Russians had moved to Antalya, a resort city in southern Turkey, that local families were being ...

Ministers of rivals Turkey and Syria meet in Moscow after more than a decade

Thursday 29-12-2022 05:39 PM

The defence ministers of rivals Turkey and Syria met in Moscow after more than a decade along with their Russian counterpart in an effort to normalise ties between them amid the long-running Syrian ...